I think some empathy and sympathy is warranted to the users of the site that had nothing to do with any of the alleged harms!
It is pretty tiresome to be accused-by-association. I’m not aware of any significant problems with abuse “in LessWrong”. And, from what I can tell, almost all of the alleged abuse happened in one particular ‘rationalist community’, not all, most, or even many of them.
I’m extremely skeptical that the article or this post were inspired by compassion towards anyone.
I think some empathy and sympathy is warranted to the users of the site that had nothing to do with any of the alleged harms!
It is pretty tiresome to be accused-by-association. I’m not aware of any significant problems with abuse “in LessWrong”. And, from what I can tell, almost all of the alleged abuse happened in one particular ‘rationalist community’, not all, most, or even many of them.
I’m extremely skeptical that the article or this post were inspired by compassion towards anyone.